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A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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Trump is trying to BAN states from regulating AI in *any* way to protect your safety and privacy.
He couldn't get the votes in Congress to do it—so he's threatening to sue or yank funding from any state that stands up to tech billionaires.
This is a massive, corrupt overreach.
He couldn't get the votes in Congress to do it—so he's threatening to sue or yank funding from any state that stands up to tech billionaires.
This is a massive, corrupt overreach.
December 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Trump is trying to BAN states from regulating AI in *any* way to protect your safety and privacy.
He couldn't get the votes in Congress to do it—so he's threatening to sue or yank funding from any state that stands up to tech billionaires.
This is a massive, corrupt overreach.
He couldn't get the votes in Congress to do it—so he's threatening to sue or yank funding from any state that stands up to tech billionaires.
This is a massive, corrupt overreach.
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I love you Powderhorn/ Ward 9 ❤️
December 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I love you Powderhorn/ Ward 9 ❤️
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RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr
Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
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Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
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actual numbers suggest that this narrative of systematic discrimination against white millennial men is bullshit.
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
actual numbers suggest that this narrative of systematic discrimination against white millennial men is bullshit.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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just getting around to reading this and one of the things i really loved in this piece is the idea that requiring students to engage in close reading requires them to take themselves seriously and believe that they have the capacity to make a claim and build an argument....
I'm honored to share that just in the past two weeks since it came out, my essay "The Claims of Close Reading" became the fourth-most read piece of the year at
@bostonreview.bsky.social
Thank you for reading it. This is truly amazing company to find myself in.
@bostonreview.bsky.social
Thank you for reading it. This is truly amazing company to find myself in.
Our Most-Loved Pieces of 2025 - Boston Review
Revisit the writing from this year that readers turned to the most.
www.bostonreview.net
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
just getting around to reading this and one of the things i really loved in this piece is the idea that requiring students to engage in close reading requires them to take themselves seriously and believe that they have the capacity to make a claim and build an argument....
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"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
Exclusive: The Department of Veterans Affairs will abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees.
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"Jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff," it says.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
They intend to drive up patient wait times to create dissatisfaction with VA, leading veterans to, presumably, call for privatization.
They can't suggest privatization now because veterans love VA. So they intend to turn vets against it.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it
With the immigration crackdown, more pregnant women are being detained. The ACLU alleges a woman was shackled while miscarrying and others were denied prenatal care.
www.latimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The stories of pregnant women in ICE detention — one shackled while miscarrying, another placed in solitary confinement with a high-risk pregnancy — are not one offs.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
They're a clear pattern of neglect where ICE ignores its own rules. This cruelty must end.
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I also think of Dred Scott as a crucial moment in constitutional history in which popular politics (and of course war) successfully repudiated an openly partisan reading of the Constitution by the Court.
There are lessons progressives can glean from that in the 21st century.
There are lessons progressives can glean from that in the 21st century.
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I also think of Dred Scott as a crucial moment in constitutional history in which popular politics (and of course war) successfully repudiated an openly partisan reading of the Constitution by the Court.
There are lessons progressives can glean from that in the 21st century.
There are lessons progressives can glean from that in the 21st century.
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City Council voted on Thursday to override Mayor Adams’ veto of a bill stopping a potential rent hike for thousands of New Yorkers who use city assistance to help cover housing costs. gothamist.com/news/nyc-cou...
NYC Council overrides mayor's veto, stopping rent hike for city's housing voucher program
Advocates applauded the Council’s override, which comes in the last few weeks of Mayor Eric Adams’ term.
gothamist.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
City Council voted on Thursday to override Mayor Adams’ veto of a bill stopping a potential rent hike for thousands of New Yorkers who use city assistance to help cover housing costs. gothamist.com/news/nyc-cou...
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The coming Obamacare cliff could affect 22 million Americans, Toluse Olorunnipa reports, and Congress and the White House can’t figure out what to do.
‘We Are Looking at a Massive Crisis’
Health-care costs are about to spike in a way that Americans can’t afford.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The coming Obamacare cliff could affect 22 million Americans, Toluse Olorunnipa reports, and Congress and the White House can’t figure out what to do.
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I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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NYC first-grader separated from his dad and lost in ICE detention. I have a kid this age, and imagining her alone and jailed in a country where she is not a native speaker is terrifying
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
NYC first-grader separated from his dad and lost in ICE detention. I have a kid this age, and imagining her alone and jailed in a country where she is not a native speaker is terrifying
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Head Start is a key mental health support for the nation’s most vulnerable families—protecting the program is critical to combating the mental health crisis and protecting children. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/head-start-is-a-model-for-supporting-child-and-family-mental-health/
Head Start Is a Model for Supporting Child and Family Mental Health
Amid a pronounced youth mental health crisis in the United States, Head Start stands out as a crucial model for addressing the needs of vulnerable young children.
www.americanprogress.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Head Start is a key mental health support for the nation’s most vulnerable families—protecting the program is critical to combating the mental health crisis and protecting children. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/head-start-is-a-model-for-supporting-child-and-family-mental-health/
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This is the roughly the ratio of the foreign-born population which existed for half a century from the late 19th to the early 20th century.
/note that this chart is from 2019, the percent of the population which is foreign-born is now somewhat above 15%, which is a new high.
/note that this chart is from 2019, the percent of the population which is foreign-born is now somewhat above 15%, which is a new high.
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is the roughly the ratio of the foreign-born population which existed for half a century from the late 19th to the early 20th century.
/note that this chart is from 2019, the percent of the population which is foreign-born is now somewhat above 15%, which is a new high.
/note that this chart is from 2019, the percent of the population which is foreign-born is now somewhat above 15%, which is a new high.